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I'm a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta, Canada. I specialize in philosophy of war, game theory, contractarianism, and theodicy (the Problem of Evil). I am bald, fat, and ugly, but my wife loves me, so I don't care.

• TWO CALLS TO ARMS: GRIEVANCE ACTIVISM AND THE RESISTANCE OF THE PRIVILEGED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 1, 2021 • ( 6 )

  There’s a lot of variation within white. I happen to be swarthily white, but I’m white nonetheless.  I know that all us whites are privileged, but I’m especially privileged. And yet, though I probably should, I don’t seem to suffer… Read More ›

• ISMISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 30, 2020 • ( 7 )

  Among my wife’s many charms are her neologisms. Her latest is ‘ismic’, by which is meant, according to its coiner: prone to think and speak in isms. An ism, in turn, is a suffix indicating a condition, as in autism,… Read More ›

• CULTURAL APPROPRIATION (March 26, 2017)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 30, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Without social justice warriors we wouldn’t have any social justice. But every once in a while these moral crusaders get a little carried away. A case in point – well, at least on the surface – is the current crusade… Read More ›

• DRESS LIKE A HUTTERITE DAY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Today, December 30, is Dress Like a Hutterite Day. The debate over this has been raging for a few years now, and it’s put the SJW in a difficult position. Mocking members of the dominant culture has always been more… Read More ›

• AUTONOMY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This morning, a block over and ten blocks north of here, there was a woman tweaking out on something, probably meth or fentanyl. I’m reasonably certain something similar is happening a few blocks from your house too. I take it… Read More ›

• WALLPAPER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  We sometimes forget that though 2020 was hell for some, it was a banner year for others. If you escaped Covid, if your income and assets were protected, if the people you now had an excuse not to spend time… Read More ›

• THE BANALITY OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Every now and then we all have one of those wait-a-minute moments. It’s when  someone’s been trying to slide one over on us, but all of a sudden we notice. The latest, at least for me, is this mantra that… Read More ›

• PRIVILEGE AND ACADEMIA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Imagine two colleges side by side with everything being equal, save that one has all and only white faculty and students, the other all and only black faculty and students. Imagine too that there’s some objective measure of student outcomes…. Read More ›

• THE OTHER UNDRIP AND INTERSECTIONALITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 19, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Shortly after having passed its Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, the UN ran out of acronyms. So just to avoid confusion, it’s the other UNDRIP that’s the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Invisible People. Women and… Read More ›

• Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 19, 2020 • ( 2 )

  When you deny my ‘lived experience’, you deny my existence! We, the undersigned, petition our flesh and bone (zombies excluded) oppressors to recognize the following, Article 1. We are beings who refer to ourselves as ghosts. All other terms of… Read More ›